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Report Summary

  • 71

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

chicagoideas.com

Chicago Ideas: Home

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

428 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

175 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chicagoideas.com page load time and found that the first response time was 428 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

chicagoideas.com performance score

71

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

84/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.8 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value150 ms

94/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.021

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.1 s

75/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.chicagoideas.com

428 ms

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39 ms

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13 ms

application-foot-58344f0d1c096f0b7286f9aceb6a79dd.js

27 ms

css

24 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 19% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Chicagoideas.com, 55% (23 requests) were made to S3.amazonaws.com and 14% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (428 ms) belongs to the original domain Chicagoideas.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 988.0 kB (25%)

Content Size

3.9 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Chicagoideas.com main page is 3.9 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 445.9 kB

  • Original 662.6 kB
  • After minification 661.8 kB
  • After compression 216.6 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 445.9 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 105.9 kB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.6 MB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Chicago Ideas images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 310.3 kB

  • Original 380.5 kB
  • After minification 207.8 kB
  • After compression 70.1 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 310.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 125.9 kB

  • Original 154.9 kB
  • After minification 154.1 kB
  • After compression 29.1 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Chicagoideas.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 125.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (9%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chicago Ideas. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.chicagoideas.com

www.chicagoideas.com

428 ms

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39 ms

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13 ms

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27 ms

css

css

24 ms

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8 ms

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260 ms

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132 ms

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409 ms

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225 ms

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106 ms

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94 ms

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24 ms

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46 ms

Accessibility Review

chicagoideas.com accessibility score

70

Accessibility Issues

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

chicagoideas.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

chicagoideas.com SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Chicagoideas.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Chicagoideas.com main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

chicagoideas.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Chicago Ideas. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: